Angst
Label: Cult Epics
Pre-book: 09/08/2015 Streets:10/13/2015
Horror Not Rated Production Year:1983
Director: Gerald Kargl
Cast: Edwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither
DVD
SRP: 29.95 UPC: 881190014097
Cat: CE140 Run Time: 87 Minutes In German & French with English subtitles
Color Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1 Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Region 0
Blu-ray
SRP: 34.95 UPC: 881190014196
Cat: CE141 Run Time: 87 Minutes In German & French with English subtitles
Color Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1 DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Region ALL
Synopsis:
ANGST, photographed by legendary Oscar-winning Polish animator/experimentalist Zbig Rybczynski and scored by Krautrock synth god Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), is one hell of a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle.
Erwin Leder (Das Boot, Schindler’s List) plays a maniacal killer based on the real-life serial murderer Werner Kniesek. As he stalks through the bland Viennese countryside, Schulze’s music pulses darkly, and Zbig’s innovative first-person camerawork grabs you by the throat, never letting go. Angst is one film that, without any empty hyperbole, we can guarantee you’ll never, ever forget.
Cult Epics presents for the first time since its original release, the Uncut, Uncensored (optically restored tunnel murder-scene) in HD, with painstaking bonus features; including a new Interview with Erwin Leder, and Audio Commentary and an Interview with director Gerald Kargl conducted by Jorg Buttgereit (Nekromantik), and an 2015 Introduction by Gasper Noe (director of Irreversible, Enter The Void, Love), who cited Angst as an influence, one that I have watched more than 40 times.
Bonus Features (DVD):
- New High-definition Transfer
- Optional playback with or without Prologue
- New Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
- Introduction by Gaspar Noe (2015)
- Featurette: Erwin Leder in Fear (2015)
- Interview with Gerald Kargl by Jorg Buttgeriet (2003)
- Interview with cinematographer Zbigniew Rybzcynski (2004)
- Audio Commentary by Gerald Kargl conducted by film critic Marcus Stiglegger
- New HD Trailer
Bonus Features (Blu-ray):
- New High-definition Transfer
- Optional playback with or without Prologue
- New DTS HD MA 5.1 Surround
- Introduction by Gaspar Noe (2015)
- Featurette: Erwin Leder in Fear (2015)
- Interview with Gerald Kargl by Jorg Buttgeriet (2003)
- Interview with cinematographer Zbigniew Rybzcynski (2004)
- Audio Commentary by Gerald Kargl conducted by film critic Marcus Stiglegger
- New HD Trailer
- Limited Edition -40 Page booklet includes Interviews with Gerald Kargl, Erwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither, Illustrated with rare photos and Werner Kniesek original Kurier articles.
- Collectible Blu-ray Slipcase and Sleeve
